Lingula clintoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LingulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lingulidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lingulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lingula clintoni on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Bear Creek Formation · Clinton Group2
- Thorold Formation · Medina Group1
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The named rock units Lingula clintoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lingula clintoni and its relatives
SilurianWhere Lingula clintoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata3 sites
- Lingula oblata3 sites
- Zygobolba3 sites
- Coelospira hemispherica2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Helopora fragilis2 sites
- Modiolopsis2 sites
- Phaenopora ensiformis2 sites
- Pyrenomoeus cuneatus2 sites
- Strophodonta corrugata2 sites
- Tentaculites2 sites
- Arthrophycus1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Leda elliptica1 site
- Pterinea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lingula clintoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lingula clintoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lingula clintoni was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLingula through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vanuxem 1842